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Though Maxwell Dworkin Café floor supervisor Donna R. Spears said she viewed the closing as “unexpected” and “disappointing,” she acknowledged that the café had many slow days, and that its limited hours—8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.—meant that many students turned to other options...
...growing number of regulators seem to think some relaxation of the rules may make sense. The top U.S. banking supervisor, Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan, tells TIME he is in favor of letting the banks mark back up the value of some of their toxic assets. "I think there are some changes that ought to be made," Dugan says. Mark-to-market accounting is a problem, he says, for illiquid assets because "those things have just stopped trading altogether." Dugan does not support doing away with mark-to-market entirely; not even industry lobbyists want that. But his deputy...
...there times when you have to abuse animals in order to fit in with the people you're working with? Constantly. There are certain organizations that have guidelines investigators have to follow. But for me, if a supervisor tells me to do something, I'm trying to show that facility has a protocol that they follow that may or may not be against the law. As an undercover investigator, you don't alter anything or plant anything. You show things exactly as they are. (Read a Q&A with the head of the Humane Society about factory farming...
What makes these cases terrifying, in addition to heartbreaking, is that they reveal the hard truth about this country's health-care system: just about anyone could be one bad diagnosis away from financial ruin. Most people get their coverage where they work. But Anna McCourt, a supervisor at the ACS call center, says employees often have difficulty understanding the jargon in insurance policies. Even human-resources personnel may not fully understand all the intricacies of a policy when briefing a new employee. Coverage that seems generous when you are healthy - eight annual doctor visits or three radiation courses - quickly...
...Wilhite, the service the specialists offered was empowering - the counselors are not advocates, says HIAS supervisor Anna McCourt, but they show patients and families how to open doors to solutions, decoding insurance jargon and suggesting strategies for appeals after a denial of coverage. Wilhite got advice on how to approach the family's insurer about increasing lifetime benefits to $1.5 million, a successful strategy that saw benefits raised for all employees at the automotive company where Taylor's father works...